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After last week’s excursion to the beach, Steve and Julian are back in the studio to bring you another two hours of hits, headlines and halibut on this week’s Off The Chart! They’re taking you back to this day in 1981 for some forgotten and half-remembered hits, three tracks from one of the week’s big albums, a look at the day’s events, a hit from the Japanese chart and the top five in full. And because you still won’t give us $1 a month on Patreon there’s a horrible forfeit track for you. Which band decided to give away their fifth album free with their fourth? Which single became the highest ever charting follow-up to a Eurovision winner? And who was the missing link between Michael Jackson and Ian Dury? Click PLAY to find out!

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If you’ve missed a previous edition they’re all on our Mixcloud page, or for a taster of the music we play, listen to our Spotify playlist Way Off The Chart including one track from each show!

We also have a Spotify playlist for our #ICEOTWF feature, including all (well, most) of the international hits we’ve played since the feature began in March 2017. There are all sorts of oddities in here, all of which were hits somewhere in the world but not in the UK!

Steve and Julian take us all the way back to this very day in 1980 for some undiscovered hits, the day’s events, an international hit, three tracks from the week’s featured album and the top five singles in full. Which … read more

Thin Lizzy have a new album in the top ten this week! Although not exactly. New at number 6 is Heavy Fire by Black Star Riders, the band that grew out of the most recent touring line-up of Lizzy including … read more

That idea of showing two editions of TOTP a week on consecutive nights seemed great at the start of the year. Quickly, though, we ran into problems due to the, shall we say, unavailability of certain episodes. Miss out a … read more

For all Michael Hurll’s efforts in dragging Top of the Pops kicking and screaming into the ’80s and turning it into a dazzling celebration of pop music instead of a dreary light entertainment show, he keeps coming up against one … read more

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Need something to help you through the Christmas wrapping? Join Steve and Julian for a trip back to 1982 in this week’s Off The Chart! As always there’s a host of forgotten and half-remembered hits, three tracks from one of … read more

We’re going back thirty years to this day in 1988 on this week’s Off The Chart for another two hours of hits, headlines and house music – as well as rock, pop, reggae, soul and even some old time music … read more

It’s the end of another dexy so that means our lovely Patreon backers are treated to another exclusive edition of Further Off The Chart, in which Steve and Julian from Off The Chart play some of the tracks that were … read more